The Recovery of Self-Interest Well Understood as a Regime Value What Is at Stake/Why This Is Important?
Understood in economic terms, interest elevates baser human impulses and degrades higher human potential as it motivates individuals to value material gains over moral ones. Because of this influence, it is difficult to consider interest as a regime value. But just because it is beleaguered does not...
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Published in | Administration & society Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 552 - 574 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Los Angeles, CA
SAGE Publications
01.04.2017
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC |
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Summary: | Understood in economic terms, interest elevates baser human impulses and degrades higher human potential as it motivates individuals to value material gains over moral ones. Because of this influence, it is difficult to consider interest as a regime value. But just because it is beleaguered does not mean it ought to be abandoned, especially because interest is placed front and center in the constitutional order. Providing a perspective of the merits of interest, Alexis de Tocqueville offers a conceptualization that allows this regime value to be relevant even for contemporary administrators operating in spaces of diffused public responsibility. |
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ISSN: | 0095-3997 1552-3039 |
DOI: | 10.1177/0095399715616839 |